Quotes About Deception

Alas! How difficult it is to prevent the countenance from betraying guilt!

Skilled in every trick, a worthy heir of his paternal craft, he would make black look like white, and white look black.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name.

My wife can sniff out a lie from six thousand miles away. And I'm the world's worst liar, anyway.

There's a sucker born every minute.

Kutya nehéz úgy hazudni, ha az ember nem ösmeri az igazságot.

At five minutes to eleven on the morning named he was at the station, a false beard and spectacles shielding his identity from the public eye. If you had asked him he would have said that he was a Scotch business man. As a matter a fact, he looked far more like a motor-car coming through a haystack.

These were people who believed everything about the Soviet Union was perfect, but they were bringing their own toilet paper.

The public appears disposed to be amused even when they are conscious of being deceived.

The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes—or pretends to believe—that everything and everybody are humbugs.

The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!" "I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

Art is a lie that tells the truth.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.

En México, las traiciones, como los cojones y los ovarios, vienen de a pares.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

Todo el mal que puede desplegarse en el mundo se esconde en un nido de traidores». FRANCESCO PETRARCA

Unless you realize that your own mind is the buddha, you will be deceived by the multitude of conceptual thoughts. So realize that your own mind is the buddha!

Open your mind and clear it of all thoughts that would deceive.

The truth is sometimes the very opposite from what you expect it to be.